we left perth on 5/9 (months after planning to leave). Sue and I left Alf and Allison's house about 3.30am to catch a 6.00am flight. Ash was there when we got there with Cam.
our first challenge of the day was overweight luggage (we were 15 kg over). Sue negotiated with the airline and got the weight down to 10kg but they charged us $70/kg so it cost us $700 before we left the airport.
After coffee with Nicky, Emilio, Lauren, Michael and Cam we left to go through customs. it was pretty easy really (except for a few tears for Ash).
the flight left on time, but took 11 hours to get to Dubai. Ash and I managed to get some sleep, but Sue didnt. being compelled to sit down for 11 hours is a pain. When we arrived at Dubai it was about 40c (even in the airport) and we had to struggle our way from one plane to the next. we notionally had 90 mins to do this, but in reality we just walked from one plane to the next through the security and promptly sat down for a further 7 hours. No sleep for anyone on this leg.
our third challenge was transport to our accomodation. We had booked transport, but it either didnt arrive or we couldnt find it. the last thing you need after about 20 hours is for arrangements to go awry. In the end we caught a cab.
our fourth challenge was actually finding our accomodation. we did have directions, but we could not locate them in all our packages. the cabbie was fantastic, but it took a while to find the apartments, and then it took about 15 mins to actually find our apartment.
after lugging our bags into the room, we went out grabbed some dinner (although everyone was almost too tired to eat), had a quick shower and then fell into bed.
that was our first day over.
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